Prague chose the form of the planned apartment building in Smíchov
Based on an architectural competition, it will be designed by the Prague studio Atelier bod architekti. ČTK was informed about this in a press release by PDS media representative Markéta Miková. The winning team will now prepare the project documentation. There are to be 56 rental apartments in the building.
The municipal plot on which the house is to be built is located in Smíchov between the Komerční banka building and Portheimka. The winning design has six standard floors and one receding floor, and according to PDS project manager Rastislav Tomaščík, it fits in with the surrounding buildings in terms of height and the materials used.
“From a professional point of view, they particularly appreciate the overall solution of the project, which will become a link between two opposing buildings, such as the baroque Portheimka and the pyramidal bank of Karel Prager. City rental apartments in Botanica will be intended for preferred professions that ensure the running and services of the city or single mothers. There will be shops and services on the ground floor of the building,” said Deputy Mayor Petr Hlaváček (for TOP 09), who was the leading candidate of the STAN movement in this year’s municipal elections in the capital.
PDS was established by the city the year before last for the purpose of preparing housing projects on city land. The municipality entrusted her with the management of 683,000 square meters of plots with a current market value of approximately 4.3 billion crowns. The organization is currently preparing buildings at more than a dozen locations in the metropolis, where up to 8,000 urban rental apartments should be built in the future. For some smaller projects, a designer has already been selected, for others PDS has announced tenders or architectural competitions. The House in Prague 5 is the first architectural competition whose results have been announced by the PDS.